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Falagard2
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I love and hate whenever Durandal is mentioned, both here and back in ILB when it was said a few times.

I love it because I get all jittery for my favorite AI of all time.

I hate it because I know it's not gonna happen.


Yeah, I remember it mentioned during ILB as well Wink Maybe I mentioned it? Very Happy

If Halo's story does actually merge with Marathon's, and it actually affects the Halo 3 storyline, it'd be pretty tricky to handle it elegantly and not confuse players who have no idea what Marathon is. However, at the same time it opens up a lot of possibilities for the Halo universe in general.

Anyhow, pretty crazy idea regarding Durandal, but I do think it's possible that AR and whatever he is fighting are both AIs now, or at least both Forerunner.

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 		There is no evidence that is Durandal. AR is pulling nearly exact verbiage from Gravemind text - almost quoting him verbatim - yet we're ignoring it. Why?

It seems rather obvious. Do we need to be clubbed over the head with a large green tentacle?

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 		Well, it could be an AI like Durandel at least.

(No, I have not played Marathon, but there was much Durandel love among the people I knew who had. I used to work with Mac programmers you see)
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 		Gravemind is the likely candidate. But I like throwing around speculations too. It keeps things interesting while we wait.
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 		let's continue specific discussion of the new post here
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Falagard2
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There is no evidence that is Durandal. AR is pulling nearly exact verbiage from Gravemind text - almost quoting him verbatim - yet we're ignoring it. Why?


He is? What quotes?

No one is ignoring Gravemind, I recently posted that it probably is Gravemind. However, it is AR's recent and repetitive usage of "outrank" that makes me think that whatever it is he is fighting is actually part of the same group that AR belongs to (possibly just Forerunner in general).

This doesn't rule out Gravemind necessarily either, but if it were the case, Gravemind himself would have to be Forerunner (again, if AR's statements of "rank" indicate they are both from the same society or caste).

And so here's comes the crazy speculation:

There is no direct link to Durandal, only I think further hints that what AR is fighting is actually an AI who is malicious and evil (I jump to the AI conclusion based on the use of "rank"). We haven't met any evil AI in the Halo universe, although there has been mention of Covenant AI directly in the Halo game. Anyone know exactly what Cortana says when she mentions something else prying around in the system - she believes it to be Covenant?

Anyhow, the only evil AI we've met from Bungie is in the Marathon universe, which is loosely tied to the Halo universe in a few ways. The use of Mjolnir armor, and the various uses of the Marathon symbol in places in the game.

Also, recently leaked Halo 3 achievements show:

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/achievements.php?gameID=274

Halo 3 spoiler:
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We'll be accessing terminals in Halo 3, like Marathon. The achievement is called "Marathon Man" for finding all terminals in the game, and the icon for the achievement has the Marathon symbol


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Lostconfused
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 		Bungie did use a lot of concepts and ideas that were present in the marathon series. Although honestly i doubt it that they will mere the two universes but then again they can always pull something equally meta as marathon infinity

Also about the gravemind spec, for some reason i have kind of a distaste for the idea that gravemind is somehow involved, it would take lot of open explanation from bungie to cover it.

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